Digital Preservation: Practical and Limitation
Name : Jasreena binti Jamil
Matrix No. : 2012544415
Class : KIM244 4F
Title : Digital Preservation: Practical and Limitation
1.0 Introduction
Preservation of digital records bring along a big challenges includes the roles of the institution, legal and policy issues, the right of intellectual property and other technical issues. This conceptual paper will discuss about the digital preservation of the material whether it is originally born digital or being digitized by archives institution. For the local authority archivists, the major challenge that they faces are the management of digital records and the long-term preservation of it. Government bodies had already received the obligation to manage the digital records through the Freedom of Information (FOI) but it still did not give significant among policy makers in local government.
According to Kimberly Barata (2004), there are two perspectives that involves in strategic vision for electronic records which are what is the program that archive hope to be implement and the reality situation of government itself.
2.0 Central Content
The content is more about ‘Archives in Digital Age’ which is emphasis on the legislation and policies that bring the changes to the local and central government in order to manage their records. Besides, it also about how electronic records in UK public sector are being managed. Other than that, it also shows the factors that limit some institutions in order to preserve their cultural heritage in the modern era. The discussion also involves about the development of SCAT (Scat is Curation And Trust) in the Gloucestershire Archives. It is a workbench tool that is developed for archivist in the local government archive.
3.0 Discussions
3.1 Main drivers that need to be change (Policy and Legislation)
E-Government policy, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Data Protection Act 1998 and Environmental Information are the main drivers that need to be change. The
Matrix No. : 2012544415
Class : KIM244 4F
Title : Digital Preservation: Practical and Limitation
1.0 Introduction
Preservation of digital records bring along a big challenges includes the roles of the institution, legal and policy issues, the right of intellectual property and other technical issues. This conceptual paper will discuss about the digital preservation of the material whether it is originally born digital or being digitized by archives institution. For the local authority archivists, the major challenge that they faces are the management of digital records and the long-term preservation of it. Government bodies had already received the obligation to manage the digital records through the Freedom of Information (FOI) but it still did not give significant among policy makers in local government.
According to Kimberly Barata (2004), there are two perspectives that involves in strategic vision for electronic records which are what is the program that archive hope to be implement and the reality situation of government itself.
2.0 Central Content
The content is more about ‘Archives in Digital Age’ which is emphasis on the legislation and policies that bring the changes to the local and central government in order to manage their records. Besides, it also about how electronic records in UK public sector are being managed. Other than that, it also shows the factors that limit some institutions in order to preserve their cultural heritage in the modern era. The discussion also involves about the development of SCAT (Scat is Curation And Trust) in the Gloucestershire Archives. It is a workbench tool that is developed for archivist in the local government archive.
3.0 Discussions
3.1 Main drivers that need to be change (Policy and Legislation)
E-Government policy, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Data Protection Act 1998 and Environmental Information are the main drivers that need to be change. The